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Auction: 21002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 177

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (277541 H. J. Pelley, Sto. P.O., H.M.S. Roxburgh.), good very fine

Harry James Pelley was born at Portsmouth, Hampshire on 21 August 1875 and joined the Royal Navy on 15 August 1894. Having been awarded his L.S. & G.C. on 24 August 1909, he served aboard Glasgow from 12 September 1912-1 September 1916. When the Great War broke out, Glasgow was in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She captured the 4,247 ton Santa Catharina on 14 August and thence played a key role in the Battle of Coronel and Battle of the Falkland Islands. After the Battle of Más a Tierra, she famously rescued a pig from the scuttled Dresden, which was to be renamed 'Tirpitz' and become the ship's mascot.

Pelley went aboard Topaze from 4 March-13 June 1918 and was invalided ashore with heart disease on 29 August 1918.

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